WABI (Channel 5) reported on exhibitions held by computer science students at the University of Maine to showcase original video games. Students from COS 125 and COS 312 demonstrated the games they built throughout the semester and competed for a cash prize. “The idea of the demo here is to get other people to play […]
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Broadly mentioned research from a 2008 University of Maine study in an article about an alleged violent hazing ritual at Hofstra University in New York. The study, which was conducted by researchers Elizabeth Allan and Mary Madden, estimates that 47 percent of college students come to college having experienced some form of hazing. Additionally, 25 […]
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Maine Public reported on the scheduled launch of University of Maine-designed technology headed to the International Space Station. The wireless leak detection system — a safety system that alerts astronauts to potentially dangerous loss of heat and air — was designed by University of Maine scientists, Maine Public reported. The leak detector was part of […]
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Medill News Service reported on the 2016 Comer Abrupt Climate Change Conference in Chicago, where Aaron Putnam, an assistant professor of Earth sciences with the University of Maine’s Climate Change Institute, gave a presentation on his research in Mongolia’s Altai Mountains. Putnam and a team of researchers spent six weeks collecting boulder samples in the […]
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Three graduates of the Maine Compost School, which is supported by the University of Maine Cooperative Extension, are certified to work at Sanford’s new composting facility, Seacoast Online reports. Early next year, Sanford residents will be able to get compost at the site, which is located at the city’s water treatment plant.
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The Republican Journal reported the University of Maine Hutchinson Center in Belfast will hold an informational session on the 2017 master’s of social work weekend cohort from 5 to 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 18. Deirdre Boylan, program coordinator of UMaine’s Master of Social Work Program, and other MSW faculty members will be on hand to […]
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Jacquelyn Gill, a paleoecologist at the University of Maine, spoke with The Christian Science Monitor for a report about how drought has killed many young Christmas trees on farms across New England. As a result, tree farmers are adapting the varieties they grow and some are considering investments in drip irrigation systems, according to the […]
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Medical Daily reported on new research from the Maine-Syracuse Longitudinal Study (MSLS) that confirms people who eat chocolate at least once a week have a lower prevalence of diabetes and are at lower risk for a diagnosis of diabetes four to five years later. The study also indicates the relation between the frequency of chocolate […]
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Lenard Kaye, director of the University of Maine Center on Aging and professor in the UMaine School of Social Work, was featured in the “Ask the Experts” section of a WalletHub study on “2016’s states with the best elder-abuse protections.” Maine ranked No. 17 overall, as well as No. 3 for “Highest Nursing Homes Quality.” […]
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Dulcinea Groff, a Ph.D. candidate with the University of Maine’s Climate Change Institute, spoke with Utah Public Radio for a story about researchers using crowdfunding to raise money to support their work. “Two years ago we started a campaign on the same platform — experiment.com — and we raised about $11,000, in a month,” Groff […]
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